{"id":205297,"date":"2025-08-23T05:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-tv-station-k24-dismisses-shutdown-claims-continues-broadcasting-amid-massive-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T05:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:37:22","slug":"kenyan-tv-station-k24-dismisses-shutdown-claims-continues-broadcasting-amid-massive-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-tv-station-k24-dismisses-shutdown-claims-continues-broadcasting-amid-massive-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan TV Station K24 Dismisses Shutdown Claims, Continues Broadcasting Amid Massive Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>Kenyan TV station K24 dismisses shutdown claims, continues broadcasting amid massive layoffs<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">On 15 August 2025, the station dismissed rumours of a shutdown as fake news. However, parent company Mediamax is undergoing major restructuring, with reports suggesting that up to 90% of newsroom staff have been laid off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;BREAKING: K24 TV, owned by Mediamax Limited, has been officially shut down after 17 year of operation in Kenya,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/808634949746668\/posts\/1832399994036820\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a> a claim circulating widely on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Mediamax Limited is a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220740.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan TV station K24 dismisses shutdown claims, continues broadcasting amid massive layoffs On 15 August 2025, the station dismissed rumours of a shutdown as fake news. However, parent company Mediamax is undergoing major restructuring, with reports suggesting that up to 90% of newsroom staff have been laid off. &#8220;BREAKING: K24 TV, owned by Mediamax Limited, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":205298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[5432,258,256,12896,8117,5106,12843,48183,430,4524,21085,6958,257,254,10613],"class_list":["post-205297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-shutdown","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-broadcasting","tag-claims","tag-continues","tag-dismisses","tag-k24","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-layoffs","tag-massive","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-station"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}